Flash Sideways

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What if someone with an eidetic memory could remember other timelines? How would those memories look to such a person... or to the people around them? How would it feel to have history changing around them?What happens when such a person remembers dying?

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The Flash Sideways series is written on the simple premise that Leonard Snart has an eidetic memory and is able to remember other timelines that he's experienced.But unlike the Flash and assorted other time travelers, he does not need to experience these other timelines as a time traveler to remember them... he merely needs to be affected by the changes in some way.And unlike Cisco, he fully remembers these other timelines, not as a "flash" or "vibe" of something else, but as completely and vividly as the one he's living in now.

It was originally a random "what if" story (and thus would have belonged in my "DC Random" series), but got less random as I started piling on the consequences. It is now part of my personal headcanon and pops up in several of my fics.

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A criminal venture organized by the Santinis leads Leonard Snart to working for Tess Morgan and Harrison Wells. He is surprised to learn that he actually enjoys working for them... until the Reverse Flash screws it all up. Leonard's friends must cope with his apparent descent into madness as he tries to cope with memories of a timeline that doesn't exist.Story begins early 2000.

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Rip Hunter presents a theory about people with eidetic memory, in which changing such a person's history can have serious consequences, and the team is disturbed to discover that the theory is true and the consequences very real. Namely, the consequence that Leonard Snart can remember multiple timelines as equally real... and trying to process those memories results in a severe form of temporal illness.Scenes on the Waverider during Legends of Tomorrow form a sort of framing story, set immediately following the events of S1E3 Blood Ties. Main story focuses on Len's memories of Flash S1E15 Out of Time and S1E16 Rogue Time.

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The Reverse Flash, masquerading as Harrison Wells, is annoyed at Leonard Snart's constant interference with his plans for Barry... and then he learns that Len has an eidetic memory and remembers certain things he shouldn't even know about.Picks up right where Flash Sideways left off, immediately after the events of Flash S1E16 Rogue Time, and extends into the events of S1E22 Rogue Air.

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Leonard Snart recruits Shawna Baez to his Rogues for a very specific purpose. Days later, Shawna helps Lisa track down Roy Bivolo with a job of her own. Takes place during and shortly after Flash S1E22 Rogue Air and S1E23 Fast Enough.